Emil dietz



(No Model.)

B. DIETZ. (103N311 IRON FOR TRUCKS.

fi0..564,'740. Patented Jill 28, 1896.

INVENTOI? ATTORNEY.

WITNESSES.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EMIL DIETZ, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR TO THE FRED DIETZCOMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

CORNER-IRON FOR TRUCKS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent NO. 564,740, dated July 28,1896.

Application filed February 12,1895. Serial No. 538,072. (No model.)

T 0 all It'll/077D it may concern:

Be it known that I, EMIL DIETZ, a citizen of the United States, residingat Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and State of Indiana, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Corner-Irons for Trucks,of which the following is a specification.

The object of my present invention is to produce a convenient andeasily-applied corner-iron for that class of trucks which areprincipally used in factories, planing-mills, &c.; and it consists insuch a corner-iron of peculiar construction, whereby various advantagesare attained, as will be hereinafter more particularly described andclaimed.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, which are made a part hereof,and on which similar letters of reference indicate similar parts,Figurel is a perspectiveview of a truck provided with corner-ironsembodying my said invention; Fig. 2, a detail plan view of one corner ofthe truck with a corner-iron attached, the flooring of the truck beingremoved; Fig. 3, a vertical sectional view through one portion of thetruck as seen from the dotted line 3 3 in Fig. 2, and Fig. 4 aperspective view of the corner-iron separately.

In said drawings the portions marked A and B are the sides and ends ofthe truckframe, respectively, and those marked 0 my improvedcorner-irons.

The truck, including the sides A and ends B, in its general constructionis of an ordinary simple form, the sides being preferably recessedsomewhat to receive the ends, as shown in Fig. 2, although this is notessential, my iron being applicable to any framecorner.

The corner-iron 0 consists of side plates 1 and 2, arranged at rightangles with each other, which fit upon the outer sides of the side andend pieces A and B of the frame; a socket 3 in which the posts or stakesof the truck are to be placed; a bottom plate 4, extending under thecorner of the truck, and a flange 5, extending up from said bottom plateinside the members A and B. This corner-iron is preferably secured tothe frame by bolts 6 6, passing through the plates 1 and 2 and the frameportions A and B, as shown, although, of course,'screws might be used,and lag-screws (or common screws) 7 7, which extend up through thebottom plate 4, as shown. By this single structure I am thus enabled tounite the corner firmly together and provide the necessarystake-sockets,the device being secured to the'frame by both horizontal and verticalbolts or screws, and being provided also with an overlapping flange 5,as shown, which receives much of the strain in use that would otherwisecome on the bolts. The device is very simple and inexpensive inconstruction, and unusually easy to apply to the truck-frame, which, asindicated, is easily capable of being made by any ordinary woodworkerwithout the use of unusual tools or special machinery, there being nogrooves or unusual formation to provide.

Having thus fully described my said invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a truck-frame, the combination of a corner-iron for securing its sidepieces together consisting of the side plates 1 and 2 extending at rightangles with each other and adapted to embrace the vertical sides of saidcorners on the outside faces thereof, a post-socket on the outside ofone of said plates, a flange or bottom plate 4 extending in from thelower edges of said plates 1 and 2 and forming a support for the loweredges of said side pieces, a vertical flange 5 extending upwardly on theinner edge of said bottom plate and adapted to bear against the innerface of said side pieces, the bolts 6 extending horizontally throughsaid plates 1 and 2 and said side pieces, and the screws 7 extendingvertically through the bottom plate 4 and into the edges of said sidepieces, all substantially as set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, atIndianapolis, Indiana, this 7th day of February, A. D. 1895.

JAMES A. WALSH.

